However, I've always viewed the primary motivation to be a gesture of good faith to a forum that you'd like to support (a donation of sorts).
I went premium to give back to the site that has helped me, and continues to help me, more than any other resource. The extra PM space was a nice bonus, as well as the image posting.
There is the "other" additional feature, of which we do not speak, but I rarely (Probably once since renewing this last time) visited it.
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